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Speed in cognitive tasks as an indicator of second/foreign language reading and writing skills
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2013 In a cross-sectional study 823 Finnish school children were tested to examine the relation between speed of performance in cognitive and linguistic tasks and second/foreign language reading and writing.
Sanna Olkkonen
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Språkanvändning och språkval i undervisningen av svenska som det andra inhemska språket: läraruppfattningar om språklig praxis i tre olika lärokurser [PDF]
VAKKI Publications, 2023 In this article, we focus on the language practices of teaching Swedish as second national language in Finnish-medium primary schools. We examine teacher perceptions of the linguistic repertoires of the student group as well as of language use and ...
Sanna Heittola +2 more
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Orienting to the language learner role in multilingual workplace meetings [PDF]
, 2023 The modern work life is interactionally challenging. For many, work consists of short-term projects executed in transient team combinations. An increasing number of work communities operate in multilingual environments, and many professionals conduct ...
Lehtimaja, Inkeri +5 more
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Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014 This article examines the interaction between Finnish employment officials and their immigrant clients in service encounter conversations. It employs the concepts of metacommunicative talk, silence, agency and asymmetric interaction situation.
Tarja Tanttu
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Äidinkielen ja vieraan kielen opettajien käsityksiä lukustrategioiden opettamisesta ja oppimisesta
Lähivõrdlusi, 2023 "First and second language teachers’ beliefs of teaching and learning reading strategies". In this article, I examine how mother tongue teachers (Finnish, Swedish) and teachers of German as a foreign language in Finland perceive the teaching and ...
Mareen Patzelt
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Finnish as a second language learners’ Finnish self-efficacy [PDF]
, 2021 Tavoitteet. Minäpystyvyys, eli yksilön uskomukset omista kyvyistä, on avainasemassa motivaation ja tehtävästä suoriutumisen kannalta. Minäpystyvyydellä on siis tärkeä rooli kielitaidon oppimisessa.
Vehmas, Maiju
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“Ihmisiltä poissa” – away from people : language learning spaces in Finnish as a foreign language students’ chat during the covid-19 pandemic [PDF]
, 2020 Smart phones enable learners to practice language use in different spaces and environments beyond the classroom. Finnish language students in two North American universities participated in a collaborative chat project as part of their second-year ...
Muhonen, Anu, Räsänen, Elisa
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International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 2020 Communication skills, especially academic writing skills in English, are vital for a successful career in the global scientific community. Finnish engineering students, however, seem to encounter problems when preparing their scientific publications in English as a second language (ESL) for international forums. Thus, these skills should be enhanced at
Hanna Niemelä, Johanna Naukkarinen
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Learning Advanced Finnish: Explorations for Second Language Acquisition
, 2019 The Finnish government offers various educational programs to aid immigrants — currently 5.2 % of the population — in language acquisition and cultural assimilation, but the efficiency of these programs in improving high-skilled immigrants’ job opportunities has been questioned.
Rodriguez-Kaarto, Tania, Hahn, Young-Ae
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Suomen monitahoinen possessiivisuffiksi ja suomenoppija
Lähivõrdlusi, 2010 The article is concerned with the Finnish possessive suffix from the point of view of teaching and learning. First, this suffix and its present-day use are shortly studied. Then, it will be clarifi ed how this suffix is taught in the textbooks of Finnish
Kirsti Siitonen, Manami Mizuno
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